Raajkumar Aaryyan is an Indian television soap opera

Soap opera

A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...

. First broadcast in January 2008, it is part of a package of shows supporting the launch of NDTV's

NDTV

NDTV is an Indian commercial broadcasting television network founded in 1988. It was founded by Prannoy Roy, an eminent journalist and current chairman and director of NDTV Group. NDTV currently has more than 1,000 employees producing news from over twenty locations in India...

 new Imagine channel. The series became one of Imagine's top ranking programmes in terms of viewership.

Story

Raajkumar Aaryyan is the Prince of Sonargarh, who at the age of eight leaves his family and his love Rajkumari Bhairvi, princess of Pratapgarh to pursue his Studies in sword fighting and martial arts. After his studies he leaves to Sonargarh and learns that a massacre was carried over pratapgarh and his love Rajkumari Bhairvi and her family are killed by his mentor Boothnath to obtain the 'Saatvi ankh'(seventh eye), he vows that he seeks revenge on those who killed her love and her family, in a twist Rajkumari Bhairvi is saved by Hussain baba. In fact the massacre was carried out by evil senapathi of pratapgarh Bhujang, in the form of Boothnath to obtain the book which contains the way to obtain 'Saatvi ankh' which gives him the immense power to conquer the world. The Saatvi ankh is in the 'Tilism' for which he needs the 'Gurumantra' which is only known to the Successor of pratapgarh. Raajkumar Aaryyan enters the Tilism with the help of his mentor Boothnath and stops Bhujang from obtaining the 'Saatvi ankh'.

Characters

• Aniruddh Dave ... Raajkumar Aaryyan
• Yami Gautam
  Yami Gautam
  Yami Gautam is an Indian Television actress. Hailing from Chandigarh, Punjab, she completed her studies from the Punjab University. She made her debut on Television with Chand Ke Paar Chalo but her real claim to fame was Yeh Pyar Na Hoga Kam aired on Colors...
  
   ... Rajkumari Bhairvi
• Manish Wadhwa ... Bhootnath
• Nirmal Pandey
  Nirmal Pandey
  Nirmal Pandey was an Indian Bollywood actor, who was known for his role Vikram Mallah in Shekhar Kapur's Bandit Queen , for portrayal of a transvestite in Daayraa for which he won a Best Actor Valenti award in France, Train To Pakistan and Godmother .He was supposed to watch his latest film...
  
   ... Senapati Bhujang
• Shahbaaz Khan ... Hussain Baba

External links

• Official Site